wlwood
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I played DROD-JtRH on my old computer under Ubuntu Dapper, then got out of it for a while. Recently, I wanted to get started again, so a transferred the DRODJtRHSetup-2.0.12.run file to my current deskop (running Dapper) and laptop (running Gutsy). When I attempt to install on either, I get the following error message:

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

Here's the output from a locale request on my desktop (running Dapper) where installation fails:

bill@base:~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Here's the output from a locale request on my old laptop (running Dapper) where the program works:

bill@rover:~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

They look identical to me. Anybody have any idea why installation would fail?

The only other difference I can come up with is that the current desktop and laptop are both AMD64 processors, running 64-bit versions of Ubuntu.

I'd appreciate any help anyone can offer.

Bill Wood

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Okay, so I only have experience with Debian, but since Ubuntu is based on it I guess this should be pretty similar:

Run your shell of choice and run "dpkg-reconfigure locales" in it; probably prefix it with a sudo if it's not a root shell.

Then make sure "en_US.UTF-8" is selected in the list and hit the OK button. That should re-generate the locale(s) you've selected, which in turn should fix that error message you get.

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Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that, and here's the result:

bill@base:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
Password:
Generating locales...
en_AU.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_BW.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_CA.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_DK.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_HK.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_IE.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_IN.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_NZ.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_PH.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_SG.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_ZA.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_ZW.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.
Current default timezone: 'America/New_York'.
Local time is now: Sun Mar 23 16:00:22 EDT 2008.
Universal Time is now: Sun Mar 23 20:00:22 UTC 2008.
Run 'tzconfig' if you wish to change it.


I then ran locale again and got:

bill@base:~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=


Which seems the same. And I still get the error when trying to install.

I don't see how I select en_US.UTF-8 from the list.

Any other thoughts?

Thanks for the help.

Bill

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Try using

LANG=C LC_ALL=C DRODJtRHSetup-2.0.12.run

in that case - that should make the installer ignore any and all locales on your machine and use whatever is built-in.

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Hmmm--well, that got me a step closer. The installation now proceeds without errors. But when I'm through, I don't end up with a binary file in my home folder (which is where it says it will create one), and DROD doesn't show up in my Gnome menus.

I can't pass along much more info, since I don't see any errors, but does that suggest anything?

Thanks again for the help.

Bill

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wlwood wrote:
Hmmm--well, that got me a step closer. The installation now proceeds without errors. But when I'm through, I don't end up with a binary file in my home folder (which is where it says it will create one), and DROD doesn't show up in my Gnome menus.

I can't pass along much more info, since I don't see any errors, but does that suggest anything?

Thanks again for the help.

Bill

OK, when I tried it in Ubuntu, (GNOME), I got a new menu option created entitled Caravel Games. That not happened for you?

Also, try typing the command in directly - type drod and tab-complete, see what it comes out to. Mine comes to drod-tcb-demo

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No new menu entries were created.

Interestingly, my desktop (running Dapper) has an installation of JtRH demo that works. I installed it a year ago, and it still runs.

I had the purchased version only on my old laptop, also running Dapper, where it also worked. But now, I can't seem to install the exact same JtRH installation file (taken from the old laptop) on either the desktop or the new laptop, running Gutsy. So I downloaded the Architect's edition, just to see if the file was bad (although it checks the integrity of the archive when it tries to install and there are no errors at that stage), and it won't install on either machine, uh, either.

It leaves me wondering whether something changed with an update to Ubuntu that gets in the way of the installation. Has anyone done a recent install on an Ubuntu machine?

Thanks again.

Bill

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Since you asked, I just went and installed the JTRH demo on this here (32-bit) Gutsy machine. My findings:

-- The "Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library" bit does appear on the console, but does so soon after I start the installer (at the same time the License Agreement is displayed).

-- Installation fails (installs libs and media but no binaries) for me if I try the default settings, but succeeds if I uncheck the "Startup menu entries (KDE/Gnome/CDE)" option.

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No luck--still didn't work for me. I get the same results, everything appears to proceed to a successful conclusion, then no binary.

Bill

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One thing I had problems with was sudo

Try not running it as a root shell, but entirely as root - su. That worked for me.

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I finished installing Ubuntu today using the latest Hardy Heron dev build and all works fine. It's officially released in 21 days so maybe that will help...

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Well, I've tried everything here and so far no luck. I am planning to install Hardy Heron as soon as its released later this month. Maybe that will do it.

Thanks all.

Bill